@coolboymew @beardalaxy Oh yeah, iBuyPower had that Snow Leopard box that had the LSD screen on the side panel. But that was a prebuilt system. I know HYTE has an LCD panel accessory for their cases but problem with those is they act as a second monitor so you have the potential problem with windows and cursors going missing. Looked into a DIY solution and while it's possible to take an old LCD display and overlay it on the side panel. The end product won't look as well made as a manufactured solution. I have an older Galaxy Tablet that I intend on using as an AIDA64 sensor panel once I work out the few flaws in the loop and get some other things 3d printed for it.

@internetfreak @beardalaxy yeah, that box

The other one is this
https://www.newegg.com/black-jonsbo-d41-series-atx-mid-tower/p/2AM-006A-000C1

@coolboymew @internetfreak @beardalaxy wtf? a lc screen only for like 160$? is it really worth it? are u sure it isnt like brittle chinese shit?

@Nelenese @beardalaxy @internetfreak nooo idea

@coolboymew @Nelenese @beardalaxy They are britle as fuck. Bought one of these formulamod.com/formulamod-external-expansion-display-88-inch-high-resolution-lcd-screen-for-pc-hardware-temperature-monitor-argb-fm-xsq-p3735436.html a few years back. Get it, thing worked for a few minutes than shat out. Contacted the retailer, send me a second one told me to keep the busted one. Same result. Ended up getting store credit that I used for my first custom loop. I forgot the android app but old phones and tablets can get the job done and aren't as flimsy as these cheap lcd panels that have a high rate of failure

@internetfreak @beardalaxy @coolboymew I looked into those a while back since they were the closest to an idea for a casemod I had. To this day I still have yet to make my build, and I’ve not seen anyone else use switchable PDLC glass/film for the case window, so if I ever decide to make it I’m going to have to contact a company and see if they can manage the custom side panel size. It’d make a really nice sleeper build to have a very boring looking pc case and the moment you hit the power switch there’s a window.

@slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew That would be really cool! That's given me some ideas to run with, but I would need to know more about it's capabilities and limitations.

@slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew Oh yeah speaking od case mods, this fat ass radiator would not fit inside with fans so i used a dremel to accomodste external mounting. Trying to 3d print a soacer so i cna put the lid on top but thats a whole other cam of worms

@internetfreak @beardalaxy @coolboymew my last full system build was around 2012 and kept me going until last year- water blocks and radiators weren’t a meaningful part of the equation yet. What I’m currently using is a prebuilt that I grabbed opportunistically thinking prices were going to stay inflated for a good while, but when it comes to those internals I’m going to have to read up on that stuff. It’s interesting to see how as time goes on and the engineering parameters change in a computer as it gets smaller, it starts to borrow ideas from cars.

@slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew The more they change, the more they stay the same. Like when i got my laptop in 2017...never fucked around with NVME storage and upon further reading i find out that it just a miniaturized PCIe x4 slut. Saved my ass knowing that when one of my company cad engineers was having complaining about storage performance issues. Put a pcie to nvme adapter in his machine and he never complained about storage bottlenecks again.

@internetfreak @beardalaxy @coolboymew my first experience with NVMe was retrofitting one via PCIe card to a 2010 mac pro. Interesting system that is- a pain to restore but the case itself is beautiful. The fact that the board only has PCIe 2.0 slots is probably the biggest hardware limitation on the thing, aside from the fact that it keeps forgetting it has usb ports attached as a side effect of the OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

@internetfreak @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew Sounds like a lot of trouble for what I guess is little to no gain compared to thinner rad.

@BitterPill @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew Youre right, its been a hassle. My reasoning for it is that I was doing a custom AIO (pump/cpu block combo to the rad, no reservoir) before this and the quad ports on the rad made filling and draining it much easier. Couldnt find anything thinner at a reasonable price.

@internetfreak @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew I do have a reservoir but filling and draining isn't convenient anyway. Might be over 2 years now since I last drained it, no need really since I just filled it with distilled water and have topped it up a couple times since to replace losses from soft tube permeation.

@BitterPill @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew Good times! Last config I was using UV reactive dyes... Not this build since i have the coils and rgb fittings. Enough color already. Using some premixed clear stuff yet will probably top off with distilled when the time comes.

@internetfreak @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew I kind of understand the dyes for aesthetic purposes, but from my experience all the other additives are not needed. The conditions aren't as demanding as with a vehicle cooling system. But then again my system has always been something mid range, no crazy burn your house down GPUs in the loop.

@BitterPill @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew From my understanding the coolant mixes have more anti-organic properties to prevent algae and things like that. Still squeamish about putting a water block on a GPU for many reasons, biggest concern is if something happens to the loop your GPU is unusable. In my config I have fans under the card in addition to the stock fans to give it a cross breeze. Keeps the card nice and cool.

@internetfreak @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew Yeah, I added copper sulfate to my very first water cooling loop for muh anti organic nonsense. Turns out I added a little too much, ironically it corroded away the nickel plating on my heatsink and removed a layer of paint from some plugs that then floated through the system as chunks which eventually clogged the heatsink fins.

Afterwards I disassembled everything, thoroughly cleaned it all and kept using the heatsink without the nickel layer on it. Didn't have any kind of problems using just distilled water with that loop or the one I have right now.

IMHO additives for custom loop cooling is snake oil. There are exceptions like loops that mix copper heatsinks with aluminum rads which is just a bad idea in general.

@BitterPill @slash @beardalaxy @coolboymew That'll do it, it's like if you add just a cunt hair of one thing and whatever mix you had and it's gonna be a bad time. Never want to mix aluminum and copper... that's asking for a bad time. No mixture that I know of would ever work on a PC.

My experience with the dyes were more of an annoyance than anything fatal luckily. Did some dye in my brother's loop. Few months later he wanted to upgrade and scored some new parts. The majority of the dye stuck to where the water leveled out in his reservoir and stained the rest. Alcohol cleaned it up and just had to make sure the screw holes were completely dry before reassembling this thing.